Does the Democrat party exploit African Americans?

The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History
of Bigotry and Racism

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A common attack upon conservatives and republicans by the ultra left
is to engage in what has come to be known as "playing the race card" but
is more accurately described as racial McCarthyism. Hardly a day goes by
without a member of the far left wing falsely accusing conservatives of
racism, bigotry, and a wide array of similar nasty things. They are not
only dishonest, but they often border on the absurd, as in NAACP leader
and hyper bigot Julian Bond's recent implication to his organization that
Bush administration officials supported confederate slavery. Amazingly,
Bond's statements went without condemnation from the radical Democrat party
or others in his organization.

Not surprisingly, in all the lies and accusations of racism by the radical
left wing, the truth becomes distorted not only about the Republicans but
also the Democrats who make these accusations themselves. For instance,
you may or may not have heard Democrat Senator Robert Byrd's outburst of
racist bigoted slurs, more specifically the "n-word," on national television
in March of 2001. Amazingly, this incident of blatant racism on national
television drew barely a peep from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond,
Mary Frances Berry, or any of the other ambulance chasers who purport themselves
to be the leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast, the main source
of well deserved criticism for Byrd's racist outburst came not from any
of the so called leaders of the civil rights movement but from from Republican
Majority Leader Dick Armey (source).
The race hustlers Jackson, Mfume et al turned a blind eye towards this
act of racism by one of their own party, at most issuing an unpublicized
slap on the wrist, or, as was more often the case, making not a peep. But
where the race hustlers turn a blind eye and spew their lies, it is up
to conservatives to set the record straight with the truth.

In response to the growing practice of racial McCarthyism by prominent
left wing Democrats, it is necessary to expose the truth about the Democrat
Party's record on Civil Rights:

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I. Acts of Bigotry by Prominent Democrats and Leftists:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time
hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented
one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20th Century – the Japanese
Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly
enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders
9066
and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-handedly
led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of
Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second
and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their
property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their
lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been
accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling
about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed
intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though
America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote
regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would
share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective
evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time."
Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about
Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an
ethnic stereotype to make his point. Expressing about his position
on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated “I
don’t care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers,
but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous.”

Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United
States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist
Democrat
Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes
a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant
president.” Byrnes was Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for
the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist
Democrat Senator
Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a
former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism himself.

Hugo Black: A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal
U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history
of hate group activism. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's
and gained his legal fame defending Klansmen under prosecution for racial
murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal representation to
Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest
in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan members acquited Stephenson
of the murder, reportedly after Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury
during the trial. In 1926 Black sought and won election as a Democrat to
the United States Senate after campaigning heavily to Klan membership.
He is said to have told one Klan audience "I desire to impress upon you
as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will
control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel."
In the Senate Black became a stauch supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives
of FDR and a solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster
of an anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs
and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed
Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation
of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused
a public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation Roosevelt
claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past, though this claim was dubious at
best. Black's first Senate election, which occurred with Klan support,
had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations
were a well known part of his political background and recieved heavy coverage
in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became
a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by
authoring the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in
the infamous Korematsu ruling.

Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV: Byrd is a former member of the Ku
Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history
in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the
Klan and rose to the rank of “Kleagle,” an official Klan membership recruiter.
Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting
traditional American values" (Source).
Byrd's choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the
fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it
promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's
Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd responded
by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)uring
the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the
Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in correspondence with a
Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have ended his ties with the
hate group.

In a letter to the Klan leadership (Source)
dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd
wrote "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and
the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never
before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd
continued his racist diatribe "It is necessary that the order be promoted
immediately and in every state of the Union" and followed with a request
for assistance from the hate group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan
in the realm" of West Virginia.

Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he
wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated
his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that
he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting "(r)ather I
should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never
to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by
race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds" (Source).

Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in
the Senate. Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and, according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered
the legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents
to the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican
Minority Leader Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14
hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure
(Source).
Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to
civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd’s racist history drew attention recently
when he went on national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one
of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national
television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on
March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely
ignored by the mainstream media and the self appointed "civil rights" leadership.
Whereas a similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator
would assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies
demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's
remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making
such bigoted remarks.

In a sickening recognition of Byrd's appalling political career, the
national Democrat party has done nothing but embrace the West Virginia
senator with leadership roles and practically every honor imaginable. To
this very day the Democrats call former Klansman turned U.S. Senator Robert
Byrd the "conscience of the Senate." They have embraced him as their party's
central pillar in all ways possible. Byrd has been reelected more times
than any other Democrat senator, has served as a Democrat in Congress,
a Democrat State Senator in West Virginia, and a Democrat State Delegate
in West Virginia. Democrats have made repeatedly elected Byrd into their
national party leadership and into the U.S. Senate leadership. He became
secretary of the Senate Democrat Caucus in 1967, and Senate Democrat Whip
in 1971. The Democrats elected former Klansman Byrd as their Senate Majority
Leader from 1977-1980 and as their Senate Minority Leader from 1981-1986.
Byrd was again elected Democrat Majority Leader from 1987-1988. Democrats
made Byrd the chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and President
Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1989 until the Republicans won control of
the Senate in November 1994. Following the defection of Jim Jeffords in
June 2001, the Democrats again made Byrd the chairman of the Appropriations
Committee and elected him to the highest ranking office in the Senate:
the President Pro Tempore, a position which also put this former Klansman
4th in line for the presidency. Byrd lost his position when Republicans
retook the Senate in late 2002, but continues to serve as one of the highest
ranking members of the Democrat Senate leadership today.

Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator
from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs.
He rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as
governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings personally
led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state. The New York
Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor Hollings "warned today
that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection
with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." According to the article,
Hollings gave a speech in which he "challenged President Eisenhower's contention
that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations"
against segregation. In the speech Hollings described the Republican president
as "confused" and asserted that Eisenhower had done "great damage to peace
and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation
at the lunch counters.

Governor Hollings' support for segregation continued throughout his
term and included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist
Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement. Hollings
was one of four governors in attendence, all of them Democrats. The others
included rabid segregationists Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett
of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting, noting that
among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist White Citizens
Council organization to mobilize political opposition to desegregation.

In more recent years Hollings, a senior Democrat senator, has made disparaging
racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator Hollings, who was
a contender for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, blamed his
defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against Hispanics. After
losing the Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings stated "You had wetbacks from California
that came in here for Cranston," referring to one of his opponents, Alan
Cranston. A few years later Hollings reportedly used the slur "darkies"
to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly referred to
the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the "Blackbow Coalition," and called former
Senator Howard Metzenbaum, who is Jewish, "the Senator from B'nai B'rith."
Hollings gained international criticism for his remarks about the African
Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked
"you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than
eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the confederate
flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was considered
at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press ignored
Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time the political
correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his campaign after
Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be decided upon
by South Carolina and not the national government.

Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at
the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic
slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent
self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry
he dishonestly purports to oppose.

Dan Rather: Rather, the well known television anchor for
CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat
party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don
Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long
term refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair
with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather
noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that
was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers,
all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air,
refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him cover the
Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial
stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat"
on the Little Rascals comedies. It is widely regarded as a racial
epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several
civil rights organizations. In several past incidents (see here
and here)
the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has recieved condemnation by the NAACP,
Al Sharpton and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations
and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired
over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the
mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher.
Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent
now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive
racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show.
It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations
of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left
wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!

Cragg Hines: Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based
Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes
no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is
often the case with those who differ in opinion with him. Ironically,
Hines, a columnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive,
is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked
Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual
liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial
slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the
article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense
of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other
things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem
to object to himself for his own bigotted language in the same article.
Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter
to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference
for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious
leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has
expressed in numerous editorial columns.

Al Sharpton: Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one
of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination,
has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the
1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered
an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish
owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs.
During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker"
and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob
later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven (source).

Representative Dick Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat
Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches
to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro
South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during
his early years as a congressman. Newsmax.com
further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement
of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt
has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.

Andrew Cuomo: Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary
and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded
using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential
Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated
that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination
Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black
and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports,
Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later
dropped out of the race for governor (source).

Lee P. Brown: Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat
mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic
voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando
Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic
community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's
campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The
signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The
signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed
to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs
were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made
a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see
the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers
also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The
racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great
that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic,
retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter
in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of
the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing
them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election.
When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at
polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large
campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word
"Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and
slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner
on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked
by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially
motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear
of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James
Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown
had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities
at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted
by his campaign will take years to heal.

Mary Frances Berry: Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission
on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in
her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights
commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party,
but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore
for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions
to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates
over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the
far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist
causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect
the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she
believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against
persons of certain select skin colors.

Billy McKinney: Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney
of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia
McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection
bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties
on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments,
stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney
lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.

The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple
Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks
of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often
overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has
been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of
1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history.
Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National
Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding
the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted
to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal
shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the
convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory
rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever
occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event
was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform
victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

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II. Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Movement:

A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the
civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical
neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting
the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes
from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored
civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed
them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked
by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats
have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights
movement.

Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent
and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:

- Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia

- J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor
of Bill Clinton

- Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor
of Al Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father's opposition
to the Civil Rights Act.

- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame

- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President
Pro Tempore

The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 includes Senators:

- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama

- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas

- Holland and Smathers of Florida

- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia

- Ellender and Long of Louisiana

- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi

- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina

- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina

- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee

- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia

- R. Byrd of West Virginia

Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to
literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats
VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED
it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred
with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House
Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans. The same Democrat standard bearers
took their normal racists stances, this time with Senator Fulbright leading
the opposition effort.

It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett
Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil
Rights Act (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award for
the year by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon
breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican
Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality
of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment.
It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" (Full
text of speech). Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all
but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not
the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen
also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was
signed by Republican President Eisenhower.

Outside of Congress, the three most notorious opponents of school integration
were all Democrats:

- Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas and one of Bill
Clinton's political heroes

- George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama

- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia

The most famous of the school desegregation standoffs involved Governor
Faubus. Democrat Faubus used police and state forces to block the integration
of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The standoff was settled and
the school was integrated only after the intervention of Republican
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Even the Democrat Party organization resisted integration and refused
to allow minority participation for decades. Exclusion of minorities was
the general rule of the Democrat Party of many states for decades, especially
in Texas. This racist policy reached its peak under the New Deal
in the southern and western states, often known as the New Deal Coalition
region of FDR. The Supreme Court in Nixon v. Herndon declared the
practice of "white primaries" unconstitutional in 1927 after states had
passed laws barring Blacks from participating in Democrat primaries. But
the Democrat Parties did not yield to the Court’s order. After Nixon
v. Herndon, Democrats simply made rules within the party's individual
executive committees to bar minorities from participating, which were struck
down in Nixon v. Condon in 1932. The Democrats, in typical racist
fashion, responded by using state parties to pass rules barring blacks
from participation. This decision was upheld in Grovey v. Townsend,
which was not overturned until 1944 by Smith v. Allwright. The Texas
Democrats responded with their usual ploys and turned to what was known
as the "Jaybird system" which used private Democrat clubs to hold white-only
votes on a slate of candidates, which were then transferred to the Democrat
party itself and put on their primary ballot as the only choices. Terry
v. Adams overturned the Jaybird system, prompting the Democrats to
institute blocks of unit rule voting procedures as well as the infamous
literacy tests and other Jim Crow regulations to specifically block minorities
from participating in their primaries. In the end, it took 4 direct Supreme
Court orders to end the Democrat's "white primary" system, and after that
it took countless additional orders, several acts of Congress, and a constitutional
amendment to tear down the Jim Crow codes that preserved the Democrat's
white primary for decades beyond the final Supreme Court order ruling it
officially unconstitutional.

Hispanics in South Texas were treated especially poorly by the Democrat
Party, which relied heavily on a system of political bosses to coerce and
intimidate Hispanics into voting for Democrat primary candidates of choice.
Though coercion is illegal, this system, known as the Patron system, is
still in use to this day by local Democrat parties in some heavy Hispanic
communities of the southwest.

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The next time Democrats take to the national airwaves to dishonestly
accuse Republicans of racial hatred, remember who the historical record
up until this very day points to as the real bigots: The Democrat Party.
In all possible ways, the Democrat Party is built around the pillars of
ultra leftists, many of whom are known participants in racism and/or affiliates
of racist hate groups. Consider the Democrat Party of today's heroes and
leaders:

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon and orchestrator of
Japanese Internment

- Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, former affiliate of
a St. Louis area racist group

- Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd, former Ku Klux
Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television

- Rev. Jesse Jackson, Democrat keynote speaker and race
hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs

- Rev. Al Sharpten, Democrat activist and perennial candidate
and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City

- Sen. Ernest Hollings, leading Democrat Senator known for use
of racial slurs against several minority groups

- Lee P. Brown, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat
mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic
voters

- Andrew Cuomo, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat
candidate for NY Governor who made racist statements about a black opponent.

- Dan Rather, Democrat CBS news anchor and editorialist known
for using anti-black racial epithets on a national radio broadcast

- Donna Brazile, former Gore campaign manager known for
making anti-white racial attacks. Brazile has also worked for Jackson,
Gephardt, and Michael Dukakis

The simple truth is that the Democrat Party's history during this century
is one closely aligned to bigotry in a record stemming largely out of the
liberal New Deal era up until the modern day. Bigots are at the center
of the Democrat party's current leadership and role models. And in a striking
display of hypocrisy, many of the same Democrats who dishonestly shout
accusations of "bigotry" at conservatives are practicing bigots of the
most disgusting and disreputable kind themselves.